Characteristics of and Strategies for Teaching Students with Mild Disabilities
Authors: Martin Henley, Roberta S. Ramsey, & Robert F. Algozzine
Call Number: TT263
This completely up-to-date resource describes the characteristics of students with mild disabilities while clearly explaining the best teaching practices for inclusive education, behavior management, and social skill instruction. The authors provide strategies for modifying classroom instruction for students with mild disabilities, including learning disabilities, mild intellectual disabilities, and emotional disturbance. New information on RTI and how it creates opportunities for general education reading specialists to establish preventive reading programs for at-risk students is also included.

The Disability Studies ReaderEdited by Lennard J. Davis
Call Number: DA82
This thorough resource provides the most comprehensive introduction to disability studies. Now in its third edition, it contains a wide range of seminal, cutting-edge, and classic articles in the field. The collection covers cultural studies, identity politics, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, the visual arts, gender, and race studies, as well as memoir, poetry, fiction, and prose non-fiction.

I Just Am: A Story of Down Syndrome Awareness and ToleranceAuthor: Bryan & Tom Lambke
Call Number: DA83
This book offers an intimate portrait of a father and son’s determination to live a normal life in the face of Bryan’s Down syndrome through a touching, often humorous glimpse into Bryan’s day-to-day life, struggles, and accomplishments. This joyous celebration of diversity also offers a poignant reminder of the sameness that connects us all. Bryan’s indomitable spirit and determination will be an inspiration to anyone facing the challenges of disability.

The Power of Dyslexic Thinking: How a Learning Disability Shaped Six Successful CareersAuthor: Robert W. LangstonCall Number: DA84What does it mean to think like a dyslexic? How is it different from the way everyone else thinks, and what can we learn from it? To answer these questions, the author draws on his personal experience with dyslexia, as well as inspirational stories of top business leaders and artists who overcame childhood learning disabilities and achieved great success. This book is designed to help children with learning disabilities (along with their parents and educators) see that a dyslexic mind—though different—is a fine mind to have.

Starting with Their Strengths: Using the Project Approach in Early Childhood Special EducationAuthors: Deborah Lickey & Denise Powers
Call Number: EC4While focusing on children’s individual strengths, which include their interests, intelligences, and unique styles of learning, this resource demonstrates teaching strategies that address multiple areas of development. Using scenarios from their own practice, the authors examine the process of accessing children’s strengths to facilitate social, emotional, cognitive, and motor development, including concepts and skills. The authors provide tools to determine, organize, and plan with children’s strengths and demonstrate the use of documentation as an authentic assessment of children’s skills and goals. Teachers will use this book to create learning environments that enrich learning for all children.

Reading and Responding in the Middle Grades: Approaches for All Classrooms
Authors: Lee Galda & Michael F. Graves
Call Number: CRD280
This text focuses on practical, research-based approaches middle-grade teachers can use to help their students hone their reading abilities, learn from what they read, and become increasingly motivated to read and competent in responding to the sophisticated narrative and expository texts they encounter in the middle grades and beyond. This book is unique in that it encompasses learning to read (comprehension), reading to learn (across the curriculum), and adolescent literature and response.

All About ADHD: The Complete Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers
Author: Linda Jo Pfiffner
Call Number: AD9
This revised and updated, best-selling, K-8 guide to teaching students with ADHD in the mainstream classroom, will support you as you support your students with ADHD, so that all students in your classroom can experience success. The author shares research-based, classroom-tested strategies for creating an ADHD-friendly classroom, establishing effective routines, designing lessons that maximize attention, promoting peer acceptance and support, teaching social skills and organizational skills, implementing rules, creating individualized behavior programs, working with parents, and documenting progress.

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